Nature & weather

Mountains, weather, and the outdoors — the landscape the language grew up in.

• taw mountain
  Mingi taw — Mount Elbrus (literally: the eternal mountain)
• suw water / river
• kök sky (also: blue)
• jer earth, ground, land
• qar snow
• jangur rain
• jel wind
• boran snowstorm
• terek tree
• ağaç wood / forest
• taş stone
• köl lake
• hawa weather
• bulut cloud
• tuban fog, mist
• eliya lightning, thunderbolt
• gürüldew thunder
• çıq dew
• qıraw hoarfrost, night freeze
• qurğaqlıq drought
• bulaq natural spring, river
• çeget forest, mountain woodland
• aran valley
• qaya rock, cliff, crag
• dorbun cave
• tengiz sea

kün (sun) and ay (moon) live in the time words — one word each covers both the body and the unit of time.